Join us for this inaugural offering of a new Self-Publishing Workshop for Writers and Authors, led by Steve Sparks. This workshop is centered on the value of real-time learning and collaboration by students, facilitated by the instructor. Students will have ownership for group leadership, collaboration, preparation, actions, follow-up, and outcomes. The instructor will ensure that the class stays focused to achieve results, and learning outcomes students desire to achieve as a team. The instructor will provide broader leadership and professional input in a deliberate manner as a facilitator. The workshop will not be a lecture format. “My role as the instructor is listening and stimulating creative discussion and team work,” Sparks told OCCC. “The following would be an outline of the course, but would evolve based on the needs of the students.”

Passion fuels creativity, focus, discipline

Impact and value of technology in publishing world

Marketing tools and media savvy, the value proposition

Building a product to sell

Patience, innovation, trial and error

Your team is critical, family and friends

Execution

Networking and feedback, achieving critical mass

What’s next? Evolution of technologies

Local authors as guest speakers and contributors

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I am so honored to have the opportunity to facilitate the upcoming Self-Publishing Workshop! Following 6 years of self-publishing as an author, and blogger to create awareness and promote my books, there is so much more to learn…a true labor of love and work in progress. We will experiment with this workshop as a team, fine tune it together, and make it a robust learning experience for all, including me. Please join us for this exciting opportunity to offer real-time learning at the grassroots level. The workshop will be highly engaging with individual and group participation…the students build on the topics and outcomes. Also thinking about a class project at the end of the quarter… Ask me more if you have an interest. Hurry! So far, there appears to be great enthusiasm for this type of workshop… Self publishing authors as guest speakers a plus!

See you all on March 28th, 530p-700p at the OCCC North Campus, Lincoln City, Oregon…

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